Update from the Dharna in Mehendiganj

Phone Conversation with Nandlal on May 09, 2006

Nandlal:

" The dharna is going good except that the weather is becoming very hot which is becoming a concern. Two days back a reporter Aman Sethi from Frontline (Hindu) was here to cover the dharna. In the previous edition of Frontline he had talked about the issue of water privatization. He said that he wanted to do a follow up article in the next edition and for that he wanted to cover the dharna.

Coca-cola has just started distributing one more pamphlet saying that I have received about Rs. 57 lacs from abroad and I have used that for the tent house and house construction.

Tomorrow will be the 50th day of the dharna. It also happens to be the third anniversary since Lok Samiti launched the struggle against Coca-Cola on May 10, 2003. We are going to have programmes for this. "